J. C. Ryle comments on John 20:11-18, in our Bible reading plan today: fears and sorrows of believers are often quite needless. We are told that Mary stood at the sepulcher weeping, and wept as if nothing could comfort her. She wept when the angels spoke to her; “Woman,” they said, “why are you weeping?” … More J.C. Ryle: No just cause for anxiety
Today in our read-through-the-Bible plan, we come to the book of Haggai. John Piper comments on Haggai 2 Most of you have known the discouragement of feeling that what you are doing for Christ is of so little significance that you may as well quit. Take Courage, Work, Fear Not If that’s you, this message … More Feel like quitting? “Take courage!”
God said to Job: “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south? Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?” In Job 39, our Bible reading for today, we see a list of animals that Job can’t in any … More Control the Hawk?
December 21 Revelation 18 (ESV) The Fall of Babylon 18:1 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. 2 And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt … More December 21 Revelation 18
December 21 John 20:10-18 (ESV) 10 Then the disciples went back to their homes. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene 11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head … More December 21 John 20:10-18
December 21 Job 39 (ESV) 39:1 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does? 2 Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth, 3 when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young? 4 Their young … More December 21 Job 39
December 21 Haggai 1-2 (ESV) The Command to Rebuild the Temple 1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son … More December 21 Haggai 1-2
Today we read Revelation 17. Here are verses 1-2: Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with … More Persecution, prostitution and the great pimp
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have … More Resurrection bodies
Today we finish reading Zephaniah and come to one of my favorite verses: The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. —Zephaniah 3:17 God singing? Loudly? Imagine … More Our mighty, singing Savior
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